Ai & Automation News

AI & Automation

STL secures $1 billion optical connectivity contract for hyperscale AI data centers

Sterlite Technologies Limited has landed a multi-year product supply agreement valued at over $1 billion. Under the deal, the digital networks integrator will provide advanced optical connectivity solutions to an unnamed hyperscaler to support the infrastructure build-out of artificial intelligence data centers.

2 days ago • India

Investments & Funding

AMD commits over USD 10 billion to Taiwan ecosystem for next-generation AI chip packaging

Advanced Micro Devices announced an investment exceeding USD 10 billion to expand advanced packaging and silicon manufacturing partnerships in Taiwan. The initiative targets next-generation AI infrastructure scalability and supports the planned deployment of the AMD Helios rack-scale platform in the second half of 2026.

2 days ago • Taiwan

Investments & Funding

Microsoft commits USD 50 billion to Global South AI infrastructure amid warning of widening economic divide

Microsoft has announced plans to invest USD 50 billion by decade-end to expand artificial intelligence access across the Global South. The commitment, paired with new skilling targets and localized evaluation tools, responds to data showing AI adoption in developing economies trails the Global North by a factor of nearly two.

2 days ago • India;United States

Mergers & Acquisitions

NTT DATA expands Microsoft cloud business with strategic WinWire acquisition

NTT DATA has signed a definitive agreement to acquire California-based IT specialist WinWire to accelerate its corporate artificial intelligence capabilities. The transaction adds over 1,000 Azure engineers and Microsoft experts to NTT DATA's workforce, positioning the company to meet growing international demand for scalable, production-ready AI frameworks.

2 days ago • Japan;United States

Agriculture & Farming

Wipro completes Mindsprint acquisition to strengthen agri-business transformation capabilities

Wipro has concluded its acquisition of Mindsprint, Olam Group's IT and digital services business, following regulatory approvals. The acquisition expands Wipro's farm-to-fork capabilities and brings Mindsprint's IP-led solutions including Tradesprint for commodity trading and Procuresprint for AI-enabled procurement, with the business now operating as a wholly owned subsidiary.

2 days ago • India

Mergers & Acquisitions

Publicis to acquire Liveramp for $2.2bn to build data co-creation leadership for AI agents

Publicis Groupe has agreed to acquire LiveRamp for $2.167 billion enterprise value ($38.50 per share), a 29.8% premium. The deal creates a data co-creation leader combining Epsilon’s identity with LiveRamp’s clean rooms and data connectivity, raising Publicis’ 2027-28 growth targets.

2 days ago • France;United States

Cloud & Data Center

Fujitsu and IBM Japan partner on sovereign cloud platform for medical data integration

Fujitsu and IBM Japan have formalised a healthcare collaboration to develop a sovereign cloud platform for medical use and jointly utilise medical AI solutions. The partnership will run electronic health record solutions on Fujitsu's sovereign cloud, enabling data integration across multiple institutions while ensuring data sovereignty within Japan.

2 days ago • Japan

Hospitals & Healthcare

ARPA-H awards Ksana Health $17.9m to develop large health behavior model for mental health prediction

Ksana Health has received a $17.9 million contract from ARPA-H’s EVIDENT initiative to lead a multi-institutional project building a Large Health Behavior Model (LHBM), using smartphone and wearable data to predict, prevent, and manage mental health and substance use disorders.

2 days ago • United States

AI & Automation

Owkin to build biopharma AI Agents for Astrazeneca under three-year k pro licensing deal

Owkin has signed a three-year licensing agreement with AstraZeneca to develop biopharma AI agents on its K Pro platform, integrating multimodal data and agentic AI into AstraZeneca’s decision workflows for competitive intelligence, reducing manual analysis.

2 days ago • France;United States

Engineering & EPC

Jacobs awarded sole-source EPCM contract for Hut 8's second AI data center campus in Texas

Jacobs has received a sole-source EPCM contract from Hut 8 for its Beacon Point AI data center campus in Nueces County, Texas, designed for one gigawatt total capacity. The award follows Jacobs’ role at Hut 8’s Louisiana campus and includes digital twin technology to de-risk commissioning.

2 days ago • United States

Investments & Funding

IBM to expand India footprint with quantum computing and advanced chip design investments

International Business Machines Corp. is planning new investments in India focused on quantum computing, cloud infrastructure, and advanced semiconductor design, according to government disclosures. The initiative is expected to deepen India’s high-end technology capabilities and create expanded roles for the country’s engineering workforce in cutting-edge chip development.

2 days ago • India

AI & Automation

OpenAI secures 4 billion USD and global investor backing to launch dedicated enterprise deployment entity

OpenAI has established the OpenAI Deployment Company, a standalone unit backed by a $4 billion investment from elite private equity and consulting firms. This new entity, majority-owned by OpenAI, is designed to embed specialized engineers directly into organizations to overhaul workflows and accelerate the integration of frontier AI into mission-critical operations.

2 days ago • United States

AI & Automation

NVIDIA and IREN partner to deploy 5 GW of DSX-aligned AI infrastructure

NVIDIA and IREN Limited have entered a strategic partnership to develop up to 5 gigawatts of AI-optimized data center capacity. The agreement includes a $2.1 billion investment option for NVIDIA and centers on building massive 'AI factories' using the NVIDIA DSX architecture, primarily at IREN’s 2-gigawatt Texas campus.

2 days ago • Australia;United States

AI & Automation

SAP to acquire Dremio to bridge data fragmentation in agentic AI workloads

SAP SE has reached an agreement to acquire the high-performance data lakehouse platform Dremio. The acquisition is designed to integrate SAP and non-SAP data via an open Apache Iceberg-native architecture, aiming to eliminate the data engineering bottlenecks that currently hinder the scalability of enterprise AI initiatives.

2 days ago • United States